The latest causes of the downfall of 321 phorum. Accident A321: during the investigation, the experts encountered difficulties

Late in the evening in the Kremlin, the President arranged a meeting with the participation of the ministers of defense and foreign affairs, the chief of the General Staff, directors of the FSB and the Foreign Intelligence Service. The results of the investigation into the plane crash in Egypt were reported. The head of the FSB confirmed that it was a terrorist attack. On board Russian aircraft the bomb went off.

"Investigations have been carried out on personal belongings, luggage and parts of the aircraft, wrecked in Egypt on the 31st. As a result of the examinations, traces of foreign-made explosives were found on all the items I mentioned. According to our experts, an improvised explosive device with a capacity of up to one kilogram of TNT went off on board the aircraft in flight. As a result, there was, so to speak, the collapse of the aircraft in the air. What explains the large spread of parts of the aircraft fuselage at such a distance. It can be unequivocally said that this terrorist act", - said the head of the FSB of the Russian Federation Alexander Bortnikov.

"This is not the first time Russia has faced barbaric terrorist crimes. Most often for no apparent external or internal reasons. Just like the explosion at the Volgograd railway station at the end of 2013. We have not forgotten anyone or anything. The murder of our people in the Sinai in among the most bloody in terms of the number of victims of crimes. And we will not wipe the tears from our souls and hearts. This will remain with us forever. But this will not prevent us from finding and punishing the criminals. We must do this without a statute of limitations, know them all by name. We We will look for them wherever they hide, we will find them anywhere in the world and punish them," Vladimir Putin said. "At the same time, we must rely on people who share our In this case, the foreign and security policy, the policy of combating terrorism.Our work, the combat work of aviation in Syria, must not only be continued, it must be strengthened in such a way as to the apostates realized that retribution was inevitable."

The President asked the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff to submit relevant proposals and said that he would check how the work was going.

"I ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Russian Federation contact all our partners. In the course of this work, including the search for and punishment of criminals, we count on all our friends. We will act in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, which provides for the right of states to self-defence. All who attempt to assist the criminals should be aware that the consequences of such cover-up attempts will rest entirely on their shoulders. I ask all our special services to focus on this work," the President said.

The FSB of Russia is already taking steps to search for those involved in the terrorist attack on board the Airbus A-321 and is announcing a $50 million reward for information that will help apprehend the criminals.

The plane "Kogalymavia" crashed on the Sinai Peninsula on October 31. Home, to St. Petersburg, from the resort Egyptian city Sharm el-Sheikh returned 217 passengers. All of them, as well as the crew of seven, were killed.

The media called the cause of the A321 crash "an explosion in the plane of the engine."

A321 plane crash site

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Airbus A321 crashed over the Sinai Peninsula due to an explosion in the area of ​​​​the aircraft's engine: this is evidenced by data obtained during the investigation into the causes of the disaster. According to RBC with reference to Al-Masry Al-Youm, this was stated by a source in the commission of inquiry.

According to the interlocutor of the publication, the experts completed the decoding of the "black boxes", and the first results of the investigation were presented at a meeting of the international commission of inquiry on the evening of November 3.

As the main cause of the crash of the liner, the source of the Airbus A321 called "an explosion in the plane of the engine." At the same time, he stressed that the cause of the explosion would need to be established with the help of laboratory studies of materials remaining on the bodies of the dead and at the crash site.

“Investigators still have suspicions about a possible terrorist attack. Samples taken from the bodies and wreckage of the aircraft will help determine whether the explosion was the result of a terrorist attack or a technical malfunction of the engine," Al-Masry Al-Youm's source said.

The source also added that flight recorders recorded a rapid decrease in altitude. “The power of the explosion was large, both engines failed at once, the explosion caused a fire and destruction of the aircraft in the air,” a source told Al-Masry Al-Youm.

On the eve of the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi rejected the version of the crash of the A321 associated with the attack. In an interview with The Telegraph, the Egyptian leader called "groundless speculation" the data that a bomb in an airplane or a shell led to the disaster. Further comments regarding the incident, in his opinion, are "premature and not based on any proper facts."

An early version of the terrorist attack as possible reason The crash of the Kogalymavia liner was also rejected by the official representative of the Egyptian government Husam al-Quwaish. He stressed that all the testimonies indicate that a technical malfunction, and not external influence, led to the crash in the Sinai Peninsula.

At the same time, the airline that owned the A321 said that the only explicable cause of the crash of the liner could be external influence. “There is no such failure that could cause the aircraft to break up in the air. In this case [in the event of a system failure], the aircraft would have been destroyed [only] from hitting the ground," Kogalymavia said.

As Yugopolis reported, In their opinion, the most likely cause of the plane crash over the Sinai Peninsula was the carrying of an explosive device on board the Airbus A321. At the same time, Stratfor noted that the possibility of an aircraft failure cannot be completely ruled out.

The Airbus A321 aircraft of the Kogalymavia airline, flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, crashed 100 km from the Egyptian city of El Arish on the morning of October 31. All 224 people on board were killed. Among the dead were two flight attendants - natives of the Kuban. The Islamic State, banned in Russia, claimed responsibility for the plane crash on the same day, but subsequently the Russian authorities and the Egyptian intelligence services denied the information about the involvement of terrorists in the A321 crash. On November 4, IS militants reiterated their involvement in the plane crash.

All indications are that a technical problem led to the crash of the A321, said Egyptian government spokesman Husam al-Kawish.

“Artificial satellites at the disposal of the United States and Russia have ruled out the possibility of a catastrophe due to a terrorist attack. Everything indicates that the plane crashed due to a technical problem inside, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Recall, the Airbus-321 aircraft of the Kogalymavia company, which took off early Saturday morning from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, over the Sinai Peninsula. There were 217 passengers and seven crew members on board. They all died. The cause of the crash is not yet clear.

According to some reports, the destruction of the aircraft occurred while still in the air. The Russian transport departments call it unlikely. No traces of explosives were found on the fragments of the aircraft.

On Tuesday, an Egyptian medical examiner who participated in the inspection said the nature of the damage to the bodies of the A321 passengers on board prior to impact with the ground.

However, a source at the Center for Forensic Medical Examination said that a preliminary examination of mine-explosive traces on the bodies of the victims of the crash.

A Pentagon spokesman said that there was a thermal flare in the sky at the time of the crash of the Russian airliner. A Pentagon spokesman also confirmed that the liner "disintegrated into very high altitude”, and from the data received from the satellite it follows that at the time of the flight “some kind of explosion occurred”.

Later that day, a representative of the Interstate Aviation Committee said that the information that the A321 aircraft had a thermal flash before the crash.

On the night of Monday to Tuesday, CBS News reported that at the time of the fall of the A321 Kogalymavia aircraft, an American satellite had a thermal flash over Sinai. As the TV channel clarified, one of the reasons could be a bomb, but an explosion in the fuel tank or engine as a result of a mechanical failure is also possible.

Unofficial sources reported that from the recording of the flight crew’s conversations with the controllers, it follows that the situation on board remained four minutes before the aircraft disappeared from the radar, the crew conducted normal negotiations with the controllers, nothing indicated any problems on board, the crew also did not report them. The moment of the disappearance of the liner from the radar screens on the recording is preceded by sounds uncharacteristic for a regular flight.

Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin on Tuesday. The commission to investigate the causes of the crash in full strength at the crash site, where they examined the wreckage of the aircraft.